I love the idea to improve quick search! As a new xwiki user I’ve seen a lot of new users struggle with the current search bar functionality (they expect ‘google’ results) +1 !
I wrote in Changing (default) Solr tokenisation (EdgeNGramFilterFactory) - Help / Discuss - XWiki Forum about my own attempts to emulate this but lack the solr/xwiki experience to get it implemented. Currently I have a page/table with the possiblye search paramaters to educate users on the solr possibilities. (It’s in dutch but I’ll gladly share it if there’s interest)
Considerations/feedback:
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Consider adding pageTags to the list of search sources provided by default. I think this would add a user friendly way to improve precision/recall of searches (especially when combined with a proximity search) - in general think the page tags are a solid adition to the ‘modern’ metadata approach to storing/finding pages- including it in the quick search will promote usage.
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Perhaps adminpanel settings could include a max leviathan distance (or something along those lines) with which the quick searchs’ granularity can be steered.
question:
- Will the new quick search functionality be integrated with the search panel also?